Last year, June 26th , Council of Canadians wrote to you about the threat to the independence of our municipal government from the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement.
Since Canada is harmonizing our pesticide limits with the U.S and Mexico under the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), we will be obliged to raise our limits [...]
Staff have had a brief opportunity to review the MOE documentation regarding pesticide legislation. The announcement only conveys the Ministry’s intent to table an Act through the legislature and hopefully have it in place for 2009. However, the Act has yet to be approved and the Regulations will not be known for sometime yet. As [...]
Last Wednesday, I presented a five-minute talk on endocrine disruptors to the ECO Committee while it was debating the Pesticide Bylaw. For information, below is a letter based on my presentation and which is to be published in the Mercury on Tuesday April 22.
Yours sincerely
MG
Health Minister Tony Clement’s prudent comment that it is ‘better safe [...]
I am concerned about the new Pesticide Bylaw that will be discussed by Council March 25.
On the positive side, it looks like the new proposed bylaw will prohibit the use of herbicides for weeds; however there will still be thresholds for insects. I have a concern about including public lands in the insect thresholds. This [...]
Please remove public lands from the by-law altogether. As can be seen by the removal of pesticides from parklands in Guelph several years ago, the parks have survived remarkably well with insecticides and children and the environment have benefited.
Under the threshold aspect, please include climatic controls for the use of insectives on private lands (i.e. [...]
If this by-law is to be effective at reducing the usage of pesticides for cosmetic purposes then the infestation threshold levels as suggested, and mainly relating to turf problems, must be raised.
As a professional horticulturist, I find it unacceptable that many in my trade find it necessary to use such vast amounts of pesticides in [...]
I am submitting the following comments about the infestation guidelines for the pesticide by-law which were published in the Guelph Tribune.
As a former public health nurse, I am very concerned about the use of pesticides and their effects on human health and the environment. I strongly support the ban on the use of cosmetic pesticides [...]
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